Meanwhile, Baez, who no longer represents Anthony, said there was a strategy to the state's use of profanity in its opening. A prosecutor repeated obscenities Zimmerman uttered while talking to a police dispatcher moments before the deadly confrontation with Trayvon Martin.

"Profanity perks up jurors and, because they're naturally not expecting it and once they hear something like that, it grabs their attention," Baez said.

Baez told Local 6 that he thinks prosecutors currently have the momentum but added that it's very early in the case.

Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Martin, who was 17 years old. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense.

Anthony was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2011.

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